“Happy New Year Live!,” with an average audience of over 10.5 million, the first episode of “The Tourist (8.9 million) and “The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast” (8.3 million) drew record viewer numbers to the BBC between Christmas and New Year, according to BBC All-Screens+7 data.
The data, which reports on all viewing across linear BBC TV and streamer BBC iPlayer during the the period Dec. 20 – Jan. 4, also reveals that Christmas specials of “Death in Paradise” (8 million), “Call the Midwife” (7.9 million) and “Strictly Come Dancing” (7.4 million) performed well, alongside new dramas “A Very British Scandal” (7.1 million) and “Around the World in 80 Days” (6 million).
iPlayer set a new festive record of 141 million programmes streamed during New Year week, up 6% on the same week last year. The New Year has also started positively, with programs streamed 143 million times last week.
During the 14-day festive season from Dec. 21 – Jan. 3, the best day for iPlayer was Jan.
The data, which reports on all viewing across linear BBC TV and streamer BBC iPlayer during the the period Dec. 20 – Jan. 4, also reveals that Christmas specials of “Death in Paradise” (8 million), “Call the Midwife” (7.9 million) and “Strictly Come Dancing” (7.4 million) performed well, alongside new dramas “A Very British Scandal” (7.1 million) and “Around the World in 80 Days” (6 million).
iPlayer set a new festive record of 141 million programmes streamed during New Year week, up 6% on the same week last year. The New Year has also started positively, with programs streamed 143 million times last week.
During the 14-day festive season from Dec. 21 – Jan. 3, the best day for iPlayer was Jan.
- 1/14/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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